Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies - News

The Board of the University of Eastern Finland elected Academic Rector, Professor, LLD Tapio Määttä as the new Rector of the university for the five-year term beginning on 1 January 2025.

The University of Eastern Finland awarded Professor Tarja Malm for promoting equality in her research group.

The doctoral dissertation in the field of Physical Geography will be examined at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies at Joensuu campus. The public examination will be streamed online.

Funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, the doctoral education pilots are reforming doctoral education at Finnish universities and fostering increasingly close ties with business and industry.

The University of Eastern Finland will hold a doctoral conferment ceremony on the Joensuu Campus on 6–8 June.

After a three-year contract as a doctoral researcher, it will be possible to apply for two-year, transitional postdoc funding.

The University of Eastern Finland will organise Sustainability Days on the Joensuu and Kuopio campuses

The University of Eastern Finland leads a unique doctoral education pilot in sustainability transformations research, which will train 40 doctoral graduates in Finland.

The YUFERING project of the YUFE University Alliance has developed ways for universities to diversify researcher assessment.

For the alumni of the University of Eastern Finland, the year 2024 kicked off with a webinar where leading experts of their respective fields talked about their careers. Nearly 400 alumni had registered for the event.